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also nannie
as in nurse
a girl or woman employed to care for a young child or children
wrote a memoir recounting her days as a nanny for the rich and often indiscreet
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When the baby was 10 weeks old, the family traveled with their nanny to a wedding.
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Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 7 Mar. 2025
How to get in trouble with the IRS: invent a fake nanny or butler.
—Roxana Popescu, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2025
In a pilot program, 100 nannies arrived in the country from the Philippines in August.
—Jin Yu Young, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
O'Donnell, 62, played the nanny and confidant to Trachtenberg's clever kid detective in Harriet the Spy, which hit theaters in 1996 and marked Trachtenberg's first major film role.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 26 Feb. 2025
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Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 7 Mar. 2025
How to get in trouble with the IRS: invent a fake nanny or butler.
—Roxana Popescu, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2025
In a pilot program, 100 nannies arrived in the country from the Philippines in August.
—Jin Yu Young, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
O'Donnell, 62, played the nanny and confidant to Trachtenberg's clever kid detective in Harriet the Spy, which hit theaters in 1996 and marked Trachtenberg's first major film role.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 26 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for nanny
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“Nanny.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nanny. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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